Craiglockhart War Hospital - Wilfrid Owen - Siegfried Sassoon
Hydra, the Magazine of Craiglockhart War Hospital
£9,450
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 8 February 2023 at 10:00 GMT
Description
Edinburgh: November 1917. New Series, No. 1, 4to, [vi - including upper wrapper], 24, [vii-xii - including lower wrapper], original pictorial wrappers by Adrian Berrington depicting a hydra attacking a soldier blown into the air by an exploding bomb above a scarred battlefield with 2 nurses at hand, some light spotting
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Very rare. This number contains Sassoon's poems The Red Chateau at Courcelette and Thrushes. Wilfred Owen was editor for six issues from 21 July 1917. He took the chance to publish (anonymously) the first two poems of his own ever to appear in print, Song of Songs and The Next War. A fragment of what later became The Dead-Beat, was also published as part of his Editorial for issue No 10. Two new poems by Siegfried Sassoon, Dreamers and Wirers were published in the September 1917 issue. In November 1917 the monthly New Series was launched under the editorship of J.B Salmond, a journalist and minor war poet.
A complete set of the original series and eight numbers of the New Series survive in the Owen Collection at The University of Oxford. These issues have been digitised and are available to view on the First World War Poetry Digital Archive.